While Trezor staxxx looks like a weak attempt to mock the name of one competitor product, the fridge part is nice.

But the Passport Stun looks much more convincing! I do like it


It's No-No X, just go and read again. With the continuous list of problems of those, they are a perpetual April 1 (bad) joke. I think that this was OP's point.

Signed message is something else - it's a simple and plain text plus a signature plus an address it was signed with. This will prove the message's authenticity, you can check in this thread if you're curious.

OP_RETURN is nice, but the length of the data is very limited (80 bytes). Of course, you can add multiple OP_RETURN to one transaction.

Another option I've seen was to create a bunch of burn addresses (addresses that together can build a long sentence and since they're burn addresses they're easy to obtain) and send some (few!!) sats to those addresses in a transaction carefully created to have those outputs in the correct order. Keep in mind that any money sent to burn addresses are lost forever.

Username: NeuroticFish
BTC addy: bc1qeuvhugrlu8g34e8wl3s8dtm2k8mjf0khvqxmaf

Thank you; good luck everybody!

Prediction 1: $31,828.34
bech32 address: bc1qeuvhugrlu8g34e8wl3s8dtm2k8mjf0khvqxmaf

Is it me or OP forgot to write the date / time for when we guess the price plus the source?
It should be 30 April, 10 GMT, CMC, but... what if I'm wrong?

Nu-i bai. Ori sunt obosit, ori ma sperii prea usor. Oricum, e problema mea 

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Multumesc pentru postari. Multe oportunitati interesante.
Il vazusem pe al lui Krogoth, dar am zis sa astept, poate schimba titlul sa reflecte premiul  (nu ca ar conta asa mult, ambele premii sunt faine).
La cel cu 100 para pentru recenzie am pierdut startul.. plus ca nu stiu daca as avea timp sa fac o recenzie intr-adevar ca lumea.

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Avem re-editarea concursului Sinbad.io, sa ghicim care va fi pretul Bitcoin la sfarsitul lunii:

Sinbad.io April Bitcoin Price Prediction Challenge!
Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5447399

Organizator: SinBad.io

Se castiga: 6, 5 sau 4 mBTC (primele 3 locuri).

Prima incercare va fi pana in 10 aprilie, a doua incercare intre 11 si 20 aprilie. Pretul de ghicit este pretul care va fi in 30 aprilil la ora 10 GMT. Formatul este:

Neaparat intre 11 si 20 martie vei scrie (o singura data) cat crezi ca va fi pretul Bitcoin (in $, coinmarketcap) in... 30 martie la ora 10 GMT? De data asta nu pare sa fi specificat. Formatul este:

Cele mai bune 3 predictii vor fi premiate in bani (6, 5 respectiv 4 mBTC)
Pentru a participa, un cont trebuie sa aiba cel putin 50 de postari inainte de 31 martie.
Nu este permisa/acceptata editarea predictiilor.
Ambele predictii sunt obligatorii.

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Ca de obicei: bafta sa avem!

It's another week again? Checked.
Is Krogoth still in a good mood? Yep and that's wonderful.

Thanks man for all these great raffles!


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Interestingly everybody seems to overlook the fact that Lewis has pushed again people out of the track and - yet again - was not punished for that.
So no, I will at least not congratulate him.

Subscriu. Par mesaje mai degraba automate decat de la un operator (uman).
Si asta ma face sa cred ca de fapt OP a fost ignorat din secunda 1. Doar si-a facut sperante si nervi degeaba.
Dar na, poate sunt eu prea negativist...

Interestingly nobody questioned the 10$ per post rates for being a bit too high compared with the competition.
Sorry for some people's feelings here and there... And yep, impressive prank, Royse 

It was also a F1 week-end that looked like the fable about the turle and the hare: McLaren got 12 points and went up 5 places in constructors' championship. 

Mad week-end. After the 10 sec advance Max had in front of Lewis and the rest, I thought that the last events could make him lose the first place, which would have been unfair. Still, the way the race has ended was a bit sad.

Bitcointalk Username: NeuroticFish
Utopia Public Key: B60BB01CBC88C8E9E36206CF8D92C733AE5AA972439A12C5E6CDE80A45E31352
BTC Address: bc1qrz9lmca5vmqv2kajgtj5cp70e5uqeytnquevdh
Message Deep Link (Chat link): https://utopia.im/d53b4431fd604e2f0261792444797aa4?tid=2556805798345218131
Slot No: 19

Each and every node has its own mempool. This being said, your questions don't have much substance; plus you've described a normal behavior as manipulation: I call that misunderstanding from your part.

There's one case we could say "mempool is manipulated" and that is when mining pools decide to include transactions they would normally not include on a per-fee based "race" (transactions they accelerate for free or for a fee or simply their own transactions when they pay the miners participating in the pool).

Paying higher fee is the normal way to ensure transactions get taken earlier by the miners. That's not a manipulation. Miners are businesses that work for money, hence this is by design.

LoL nice one!

I managed to just ignore the game and hence getting painted as spammer for today, but that shall pass.
Still, a nice achievement to manage bypassing it this very day 

Hei, m-ai speriat! Stiam ca ai mai castigat (te felicitasem si atunci), iar dupa acest mesaj am avut reactia "Woah, doar o saptamana a trecut de atunci?!"
Am orele dramuite, iar o saptamana pare cam cat o luna.. si totusi nu. Mai castigasesi 505-ul, nu 506-le. Deci cu 2 saptamani in urma, totusi
Ai si pus link la 506, iar acela fusese castigat de MJ.
Oricum, tot nu e rau deloc!


Multumesc, sa fie!

Vad ca chiar a fost cu noroc! Felicitari!


Multumesc. Cred ca voi reusi sa si particip la acesta!
In tura anterioara am fost la mustata de unul dintre premii.

For merit sources the source sMerits are separated from the normal merits (and normal sMerits) plus it tells "You are a merit source" somewhere. So a merit source will know that clearly.

Mining will NOT stop then. You have misunderstood something.


Actually a big chunk of those coins is locked in wallets either owned by very strong hands (and will probably stay locked for many years to come), either lost forever. The real circulating amount is smaller.


Bitcoin block reward is MEANT to halve every ~4 years. That's part of how bitcoin software was written, and it's also something that makes the coins price rise (not the only thing, still..).

You can easily make your own fork of Bitcoin, make the block reward logic change (maybe the difficulty logic too) and mine those remaining coins even in a day if you want to. But that will no longer be bitcoin and will most probably have no value.

Well, merit source looks different. And I also don't have more sMerit than half of my merit, so it must be only you.

PS. Your question was not that clear, hence getting odd answers is expected, especially today.

I've had the same issue some years ago. I've "fixed" it by using Aegis Authenticator, which does exactly the same as Google Authenticator, plus it has options to backup, import, export your data. Much more convenient than Google's tool (especially if you indeed make backups).

If you want to go by Google, it would be indeed safer to save separately those long strings; those are the (backup) seed for generating those numbers.